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Moony
20/F
I want to be more than just a passing moment More than a breeze on a warm summer evening To breathe in and let go I want to be like a tree Steady, permanent, attached To hold and to ground Rooted in someone's being
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Apr 4
Apr 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM UTC
Roots
Your soul tends to warp itself around things not intended for you That is no fault of your own, really It's a fault in human nature A fault written in the stars long before you were born To long for something you cannot understand Some would say it's destiny, it's fate, or whatever word they use to excuse it But it's more sinister than that It's human nature A sole longing of the flesh, of the chemicals running through your veins It's undesirable, it's ruinous and destructive It's what is described in religion as sin, and in romance as love But it's what destroys us, and makes us at the same time It's inescapable
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Apr 3
Apr 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM UTC
Love
But it isn't the world, not truly It is me that I wish to escape Me, my entire being To disappear from sight From them, from myself Not a trace, not a sound Like a bird escaping it's cage Knowing it cannot survive without
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Mar 27
Mar 27, 2026 at 5:50 PM UTC
Birdcage
As I fall asleep I hear the snakes hissing under my bed I discovered them when I was a little girl the first time one crawled up under my skirt they left marks all over my body scars I can't remove I still find myself scrubbing so hard trying to remove their mark I still dream that they are all over me I can't make them go away
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Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024 at 8:50 PM UTC
snakes
Victory! I cried, oblivious. the war wasn't over silently there hid a ****** in the field long forgotten I didn't expect it the bullet that was driven into my skull breaking trough my flesh I watched my house burn down the one I had rebuilt with my last remaining energy I watched the war I thought I stopped falling back into battle I watched it all burn this was the last time I tried to stop it let it all burn.
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Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM UTC
War
The world is beautiful. It is so much more than this room, than this house, than the pain I've been trough. I can get out of here one day. Good things are coming. Love is out there. Life is so much better than what I've seen so far. And I will prove it to myself.
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Mar 10, 2024
Mar 10, 2024 at 8:34 AM UTC
Out there
Despite everything I'm standing Against my will I am not granted an ending It has not gotten better I have lost all hope But I'm here I'm alive
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Jan 7, 2024
Jan 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM UTC
Alive
My mother was always an overpowering shadow luring behind me As I grew up, all I knew was not to end up like her My family never looked away from me The daughter of the disappointment One part of me was born a disaster, the other a prophecy To break away from destiny, to change fate The weight grew heavy upon my shoulders As I got older, they began telling me I had her eyes Every time I gasped for air in the same way she did Over indulgent, impulsive little girl Those times I slip away from my own my own grasp I see not myself but her in the mirror Broken glass shards cut the soles of my feet open, a beautiful red paint emerges And my childhood nightmares come true in the blink of an eye I am exactly like her.
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Jan 5, 2024
Jan 5, 2024 at 6:38 PM UTC
Mother
I used to convince myself you'd get better, like after winter, flowers will bloom once again. In waiting for the snow to melt, the ice has encapsulated my heart. Frozen in time, our house carries a silent testimony of our pain. I have to get out, you know that too. To find the summer again, one must leave the winter in the past. if you're not ready, I will do it alone.
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Jan 4, 2024
Jan 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM UTC
Winter
I hate the word nostalgia. It scratches the back of my throat as I say it. The memory of a childhood. Careless, free, happy. Or at least, for them. For me, it's a painful look back To a time where I did nothing but survive To happy moments That were filled with silent rage and tears Is comfort really comfort If you know it's temporary? Because, I don't remember the last time I was carefree Oblivious, yes. But not carefree. I didn't know what was happening, But I knew how I felt. Unsafe, abandoned, cold and confused. The pink walls of my childhood bedroom The princess stickers on the walls They they see what was going on? Or did they close their eyes too?
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Jan 3, 2024
Jan 3, 2024 at 6:32 PM UTC
Nostalgia